August 3, 2009
Let’s get down to the meat of the issue: Single payer is the only way to go. Sorry, corrupt insurance industry, you’ll have to find another way to rip people off — not by manipulating those most in need.
Robert Grace Speaks Out for Healthcare Reform
August 1, 2009
“Hello, My name is Robert Grace, and as your constituent, I urge the Representative to vote YES on Representative Anthony Weiner’s HR 676 amendment to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s healthcare bill.”
Ed Shreve Speaks Out for Healthcare Reform
August 2, 2009
If Altmire voted on July 17 to deny PA and other states the right to establish statewide single-payer healthcare programs because he needs the financial support of the giant health insurers for his future congressional plans, then all is lost.
Ideals must be placed above personal gain if we are EVER to awake from the sickening nightmare of healthcare that haunts each and every one of us Americans.
Ed Hackett Speaks Out for Healthcare Reform
August 5, 2009
To Whom It May Concern,
Today, I called the three offices of Jason Altmire. Aliquippa said he wasn’t sure if he would vote for reform, and other two gave the impression he was leaning away from health care reform. Altmire is a Blue Dog Democrat, meaning he works along with conservatives, and even advertises himself as a Centrist. He voted against the public option bill and has taken nearly 337,000 dollars from health care lobbyists who do not want reform.
We need to organize a massive phone campaign and hold Altmire accountable for reform. Here are the following office numbers. Remember, if the constituents raise hell, then he will be accountable to your votes. We need to come together on this. Too many poor people and working class people don’t have insurance. Here are the numbers:
Aliquippa Office
2110 McLean Street
Aliquippa, PA 15001
724-378-0928
724-378-6171 (fax)
Natrona Heights Office
2124 Freeport Road
Natrona Heights, PA 15065
724-226-1304
724-226-1308 (fax)
Washington, D.C. Office
332 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-2565
202-226-2274(fax)
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Notes on the Rally for Single Payer Healthcare in DC July 30th
- Conyers at Rally by R. Schmetzer
by Bob Schmetzer, IBEW retiree and PA 4th CD Chapter of PDA member
The air was charged with excitement as the crowd gathered in the park facing the Capitol. The weather was beautiful, the Park manicured, the old growth trees gave shade, and blooming flowers graced the grounds under a blue and white clouded sky. Friendship abounded among the many different groups that gathered for a common cause.
On the stage, ” The Singing Grannies”, gave song about our plight and our dreams of a more secure future for our health care. It was a beautiful day to be alive and sharing this experience. Congressman John Conyers from Michigan came to the stage. I spoke with him about who I was and thanked him for his efforts and concern for introducing HB 676, Single Payer Bill. He spoke briefly to the crowds still gathering about what has happened since the bill’s introduction.
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Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
By John Nichols
The Nation
August 4, 2009
How should serious supporters of healthcare reform spend the month of August?
Not by getting trapped in the narrow “debate” between “party of no” Republicans who favor no reform at all, and Blue Dog Democrats, whose “reform” is to make a bad system worse.
And not by campaigning for “buzz words – “public option,” “employer mandates” – or whatever President Obama or Speaker Pelosi happen to favor this week. There will be plenty of advertising and organizing to that end, including a $15 million expenditure by the AFL-CIO.
Americans who want to tip the debate in the most progressive direction should take advantage an opening provided at the last minute during negotiations to get a bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
And they should do so by advocating even more aggressively for single-payer health care.
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The Crisis for Main Street Deepens: U.S. commercial mortgage delinquencies jump 585%
Dayton Business Journal – by Katherine Conrad
Delinquencies on commercial mortgage backed securities soared $10 billion in June, hitting a 12-month high of almost $29 billion, according to Realpoint Research.
California led the nation with the highest amount of delinquent loans, closely followed by Texas and Florida.
Late loans across the country are up an “astounding” 585 percent from a year ago when just $4 billion were delinquent, reported the Horsham, Pa.-based research firm. The low point for delinquency was March 2007 when $2 billion was delinquent.
‘Insecurity,’ not satisfaction, with heath care system?
The point is often made that one of the trickiest elements of health care reform to navigate is that a majority of Americans routinely tell pollsters that they’re actually satisfied with their care, and don’t want it taken away in the name of helping the uninsured.
A new poll, though, pokes a hole claim, suggesting that beneath the surface of that satisfaction is deep insecurity about the existing system, and a fear that satisfactory health care won’t come through in a crisis.
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Beaver County Blue: Voice of the 17th CD of Progressive Democrats of America 